Presidential Election Invalidated Board of Elections Votes to Amend Election Guidelines A The Polity Council made three amendments on Wed- nesday tightening the rules regarding campaigning procedures by candidates running for office in Polity. The first amendment pertained to the flyers distributed by candidates. It now reads that "the printed flyers supp- lied by Student Polity will be stamped and numbered by the Election Board and this will be the only flyers that can In~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ be posted on campus. Violation of these will result in the vtatt:::i i cii *^ vi ai i recci Statesman Mark Levv invalidation of that candidate." Craig Cohen Brian Levitt Rubenstein said that this will cut down the expense of the election for candidates and the amendment is in the By Mary Lou Lang as a representative for Freshman Representative candidate interest of the students. He said that campaigning will not The Polity Election Board invalidated the Tuesday's Polity Brian James, said to his knowledge Brian Levitt received be a "popularity contest." presidential election citing "unethical campaigning practi- about 56't of the vote, Jacques Dorcely received about 25% Another amendment was added to the rule referring to ces" by the candidates and their representatives, according of the vote, and Craig Cohen trailed with about 17% of the electioneering, saying that. "Candidates will not be to Gayle Manning, Election Board chairperson. vote. allowed to loiter within eyeshot or earshot of a polling While the board refused to disclose the allegations, candi While Katz added that the votes were not officially area except to vote. No one may inspect polling material dates said charges of electioneering, harassment, poll- counted, he said he was able to estimate the percentages or speak to the poll watchers in reference to the election. watcher switching, and destruction of posters were after the presidential ballots were separated from ballots for except to ask questions concerning general procedures complaints filed with the Election Board. other Polity positions. or information." Manning said the Polity Judiciary will meet Thursday to While Cohen and Levitt accused one another of unethical The final amendment passed by the Council, was to decide whether the allegations are substantial. electioneering, Dorcely -was not mentioned in the add "The Election Board, upon ruling that a complaint is At a meeting on Tuesday night after the polls closed the allegations. legitimate, inay postpone counting of the ballots until the Election Board declared the election invalid and, Manning Levitt said that he witnessed Cohen planting his own Judiciary has ruled on the complaint." said, did not count the presidential votes. Manning said that supporters as poll watchers in O'Neill College. Cohen denied The Council also passed the motion to set the election the votes will remain sealed until the judiciary makes a the charge. nin-off for freshman representative for October 13. decision. 4Calling the allegation "completely unfounded," Cohen Mary Lou Lang However, Ben Katz, who witnessed the other vote counts (continued on page 3) Polity Council Dismisses Chair -'.. I La Mantia agreed with Vaccaro, saying that is was the By Mary Havemeyer concert chair who booked the band for that date. Wolff The Student Polity Council voted three to one on Monday, _stated that the band was booked after the date was set. with one abstention, to remove Student Activities Board Among the other allegations were Vaccaro's mismanage- -I Chairperson of activities Frank Vaccaro. ment of money, the preprinting dates on tickets, the advance "I didn't lose my job, they just took it," said Vaccaro, who purchase of 40,000 beer cups. The purchase of the cups. will remain as acting chair of SAB activities until the minutes according to Wolff, was not discussed with the beer crew, of Monday's meeting are approved by the Council. SAB who were displeased with them because they posed a prob- members voiced their displeasure with Vaccaro's perfor- lem for cleanup. I, mance as activities chair during the Council's review of SAB It was also said that money was unnecessarily lost at the meeting. because kegs were ordered too far in advance, requiring the 'I One of Vaccaro's actions that brought SAB complaints beer distributer to be payed, even though the event was "i -was that he scheduled Jello Biafra in the Fine Arts Center cancelled and the beer was not used. rather than in the Union Auditorium, where the usage fee is Wolff stated the main problem with Vaccaro was his much lower. general unawareness of how SAB is run. "He was removed :: I Because Vaccaro did not go through the proper channels because of managerial problems of people and commit- when scheduling Biafra's speech, he jeopardized a future tees," said Wolff, "I can't say that he did one big thing wrong, Sratcs n.1!n Carolyn Mfllo SAB event there, according to Eric Wittenberg, SAB Concerts it was a lot of little things." Frank Vaccaro Chair. Wittenberg said, "Frank was really good on the creative Brook students, not just a select few. He added that SAB's Alan Inkles, director of the Fine Arts Center, was not given side, but not as good on the business side." and Polity's organizational structure is to blame for prob- a copy of the contract between SAB and Fine Arts until the Paul Rubenstein, Polity vice president and acting presi- lems in programming. day of the program, according to Christine Wolff, SAB chair. dent, who appointed Vaccaro to the activities chair, said, Vaccaro said in his memo that he was "unprepared and Vaccaro replied in a memo to the Council that "Inkleswas "Frank lacks the charisma and the ability to pull everyone alone when five menbers of SAB denounced me during the so pleased with the way that SAB ran the event that he has together." Council meeting of October 5." According to Wolff, both she granted SAB a third date in this facility. The event received Rubenstein also said the media has been irresponisible in and Rubenstein had asked for Vaccaro's resignation the day an excellent review in Newsday." telling the students the wrong things. 'The only reason this ,of the council meeting and that Vaccaro had refused to SAB members also alleged that Vaccaro acted irresponsi- story is being told is because there are two powerful groups -comply. bly when he booked an act for October 2, Yom Kippur that clashing. Students only want to hear the bad things They Vaccaro said that as far as he knew, the council was to had to be cancelled because of the holiday. don't give a damn so why point out SAB? Maybe now the review SAB, and that there was no indication that his posi- Vaccaro said in a memo that charge was fae. '1 did not students will wake up and see they can make a difference." tion was in question. He said that he was never shown the book October 2nd. That date was booked for SAB by Paul LaMantia stated that the general SAB actUities groups are agenda for the meeting. LaMantia of Student Activities. On July 18,1987 the Concert no different enough that they are a lamognous group. He "Tothe best of my knowledge the Counwl discussed my Chairman, who is both Jewish and a member of'old commit- said that Frank brought new ideas into SAB and began to dismissal for one hour before my appearance and then tee,' received a SL,200 contract to book the band The change the group to be heterogenous. LaMantia continued voted on me within minutes after my appearance" Vaccaro Touch' on the dete in question." that programs should be planned to fit the needs of all Stony (continued on page 3) molomp" .......... ....................... 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